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Irish Vegan Feminism: Intersections of Sexism, Speciesism, and Resistance in Postcolonial Ireland

Dr. Corey WrennApril 15, 2018July 16, 2018
In Animal Rights, Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation, David Nibert (2002) suggests that the switch from an egalitarian economic structure to hunting initiated gender distinction such that sexism and speciesism are most accuratelyContinue reading
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The Social Psychology of Veganism – Fostering Good Feelings

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 3, 2017October 2, 2018
Milwaukee activists employing feel good messages in resistance to neighborhood violence. If advocates can foster good feelings, they can foster attitude change. Good feelings improve positive thinking, and those good feelings will be associated withContinue reading
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Colonizing England and the Naming of Animals

Dr. Corey WrennJuly 2, 2017December 16, 2018
  While many recognize Great Britain as a great imperialist power responsible for untold suffering over the centuries, some might be surprised to learn that the island itself was the site of extensive colonization priorContinue reading
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Are Animal Crackers Vegan?

Dr. Corey WrennDecember 3, 2016December 1, 2018
Note: Nabisco removed the cage imagery in 2018. See an updated essay on the continued problems with this design here. Dating back to 1902, Barnum's animal crackers have been an American classic for generations. TheContinue reading
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A Month of Vegan Research: The China Study

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 18, 2016June 8, 2018
The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog.   T. Colin Campbell.  2006.  The China Study:  The Most Comprehensive StudyContinue reading
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A Month of Vegan Research: An Empirical Look at Becoming Vegan

Dr. Corey WrennNovember 2, 2016October 25, 2018
The following literature review is part of a series for World Vegan Month. Other essays can be accessed by visiting the essays catalog. Barbara McDonald.  2000.  "'Once You Know Something, You Can't Not Know It.'Continue reading
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When White Makes Right: Racism, Neo-Colonialism, and Single-Issue Campaigns

Dr. Corey WrennOctober 2, 2016September 9, 2018
The white-centrism of vegan advocacy is perhaps best evidenced in its partiality for single-issue campaigns targeting the practices of non-Western cultures. Take, for instance, the 2013 Free From Harm call to action regarding "live sushi." "Live sushi" entailsContinue reading
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The Vegan Politics of Taste

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 18, 2016January 26, 2019
Image from BZDogs Psychologists tell us that we eat with our eyes. Sociologists, however, think we eat with our ideologies. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has theorized extensively on the politics of taste. What is good taste?Continue reading
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The Surprising History of John Harvey Kellogg and His War on “Meat”

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 14, 2016January 18, 2019
But although the sheep goes dumb to the slaughter, do not its [sic] eloquent eyes appeal for mercy?  Do not the bleating of the calf, the bellowing of the bull, the cackling of the frightenedContinue reading
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You Won’t Believe This Shocking Whole Foods “Healthcare” Policy

Dr. Corey WrennSeptember 5, 2016September 16, 2018
Photo by Jay Janner   Cooperation with speciesist industry is a primary tactic for professionalized organizations in the Nonhuman Animal rights movement, despite its dangerous consequences for normalizing a post-speciesist ideology. This strategy concerns meContinue reading
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Dr. Wrenn is Lecturer of Sociology with the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Political Movements. She was awarded Exemplary Diversity Scholar, 2016 by the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. She served as council member with the American Sociological Association’s Animals & Society section (2013-2016), was elected Chair in 2018, and is co-founder of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. She serves as Book Review Editor to Society & Animals and is a member of The Vegan Society’s Research Advisory Committee. Dr. Wrenn has been published in several peer-reviewed academic journals including the Journal of Gender Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Environmental Values, Disability & Society, Food, Culture & Society, and Society & Animals. In July 2013, she founded the Vegan Feminist Network, an academic-activist project engaging intersectional social justice praxis. She is the author of A Rational Approach to Animal Rights: Extensions in Abolitionist Theory (Palgrave MacMillan 2016), Piecemeal Protest: Animal Rights in the Age of Nonprofits (University of Michigan Press 2019), and Animals in Irish Society (SUNY Press 2021).

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How everyone is handling the unusual thunderstorms How everyone is handling the unusual thunderstorms (thunder and lightening is extremely rare in England, but we've been having unusually consistent hot weather). Keeley Jr., freaked out from the booming, deaf Mishka is barking at Keeley's reaction (Mishka relies on the cats quite a bit for information), and baby Cassie is just unsure but staying close to the group! This is her first summer and it sure is wonky one!
Social movements need fractures and disagreement t Social movements need fractures and disagreement to learn, grow and adapt. Rather than look at disunity in the movement as a failure or a waste of resources, better to accept it as, first, inevitable, and second, a healthy part of the process.

#veganism #animalrights #veganfeminism #veganstudies #socialmovements #factionalism
Climate change is suffered by all of us big and sm Climate change is suffered by all of us big and small because some people want to exploit animals for food. 

Animal agriculture is believed to be the 2nd or third leading cause of climate crisis. Shifting to a plantbased economy saves lives on so many levels.

#veganism #animalrights #veganfeminism #veganstudies #climatechange #heatwave #inequality #animals
Vegan feminist book review for your beach reading Vegan feminist book review for your beach reading list...or not! 

"Bridges of Madison County" explores changing gender roles and the strain of conservative midwestern family life in the 1960s. In doing so, it often overlaps the hippie photographer male protagonist with images of animal wildness, wanderlust and vegetarianism to harken an alternative, more peaceful, yet still powerful masculinity. In contrast, the female protagonist, a romanitic Italian war bride trapped by motherhood and social conventions in a remote farmstead grapples with the stifling, if secure and predictable aspects of "civilized" living.Her character's struggle is punctuated by imagery of meat, domestication and denaturalized life. 

#veganbook #veganfeminism #veganstudies #bridgesofmadisoncounty  #feministliterature #criticalanimalstudies
Mainstream p*rn designed for hegemonic male consum Mainstream p*rn designed for hegemonic male consumption sexualizes gender inequality and female subservience. Why do we want to overlay scripts of fetishized patriarchal power onto veganism? 

#veganism #animalrights #veganfeminism #veganstudies #sexism #peta #feminism
The Vegan Society is regularly trolled for acknowl The Vegan Society is regularly trolled for acknowledging the entangled mechanisms of oppression.  I worry about the growing voice of Trump veganism in the animal rights movement...it is so vitriolic and counterproductive...and its been creeping into positions of power, even The Vegan Society itself

#veganism #animalrights #veganfeminism #veganstudies #intersectionality #genderfluidity
Good morning from beautiful Canterbury, my neighb Good morning from beautiful Canterbury,  my neighborhood flock is enjoying a much needed break from the unusually high temperatures we've been having this summer

#climatechange #pigeonlove #animalrights #rainyday #Canterbury #canterburycathedral
Me and the fam decided to try Broadstairs again, t Me and the fam decided to try Broadstairs again, taking the wonky route via the open air bus to the Ramsgate paddling pool, located in the Grade II listed building built in the Italian Renaissance style in the 1920s. Strangely, it had vegan pizza! And beer! Weird! Might return! Then back to Broadstairs on the bus to check out the seaside pubs and make our righteous pilgrimage to Lucky House to partake in their expansive vegan menu 🫠 

#veganism #veganfoodlovers #broadstairs #kent #britishsummer #britishhistory #deafdogsofinstagram
Naked campaigning in animal rights is not only lac Naked campaigning in animal rights is not only lacking in evidence of efficacy, it is also premised on white privilege as black and brown persons have been animalized as part of active efforts to racially suppress some groups. White bodies, in other words, read differently in a white dominant society. 

#veganism #animalrights #veganfeminism #veganstudies #sexism #racialjustice #blackfeminism
Came for the vegan hair salon, stayed for the swee Came for the vegan hair salon, stayed for the sweet sea views and cute witchy shops. There used to be a vegan restaurant in town. It has moved on I suppose, but Broadstairs still has lots to offer. The vegan chickn balls at Lucky House ate the best kept secret, but Posillipos on the sea front has a superb Italian menu 👌 Probably my favorite beach in Kent and perfect for eating chips by the sea. Charles Dickens also called Broadstairs home for a while and his house can be seen from the beach.

Don't visit on a Monday morning, almost EVERYTHING was shut!

#veganism #veganuk #witchyvibes #veganfeminism #britishsummer #broadstairs #kent #veganfoodlovers
Vegan witchcraft is based in vegan feminist theory Vegan witchcraft is based in vegan feminist theory and draws on an ecofeminist legacy. It identifies the ways in which feminized groups,especially women and other Animals, have historically shared oppressions that sre usually based in the villification of their association with nature. 🌙

"Vegan Witchcraft: Contemporary Magical Practice and Multispecies Social Change" is available through Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Vegan-Witchcraft-Contemporary-Magical-Practice-and-Multispecies-Social-Change/Wrenn/p/book/9781032649719

#vegan #veganwitch #veganwitchcraft #veganfeminism #witchesofinstagram
Join me and Mishka on a beautiful summer adventure Join me and Mishka on a beautiful summer adventure through the English countryside as we visit the lavender fields 💜 

#england #kent #lavender #greatbritishsummer #vegandogs #disableddogsofinstagram
Not only do we have no evidence to support the bel Not only do we have no evidence to support the belief that sex sells animal rights, the use of activists in naked campaigning who are not thin, white,  abled bodied cis women is rare. So, not only is it ineffective (why do we want to associate grotesque animal suffering with sexual desirability?) but it also props up the bizarre idea that only a privileged few are considered sexually desirable.

#veganism #animalrights #veganfeminism #veganhistory #veganstudies #animalrightstheory #sexism #animalethics
We hav no evidence to support "sex sells" animal r We hav no evidence to support "sex sells" animal rights, but we do have some research that confirms sex confuses audiences.

#veganism #animalrights #veganfeminism #veganhistory #veganstudies #sexism #animalrightstheory #socialmovements
#1 naked campaigning is not evidenced to be effect #1 naked campaigning is not evidenced to be effective #2 like the exploitative po*n industry, it *overwhelmingly* relies on young, thin able-bodied white women #3 falsely presumes we live in a postfeminist society where women have achieved full civil rights and are no longer subject to systematic degradation, objectification and male violence and would thereby be a good "teaching tool" about the systematic degradation, objectification and human/male violence against animals. Too many activists fall into the "sex sells" mantra which indicates we still accept that women are sex objects for sale, for pleasurable consumption,  still animalized themselves

#veganism #animalrights #veganfeminism #veganhistory #sexism #animalrightstheory #veganwomen
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